Richard's Play By Email Server is a server on the internet setup for the playing of various different online games in the play-by-email method.

The games that can be played there include, but are not limited to:

• Accasta A stacking game on a hexagonal board.
• Akron : A 3-dimensional connection game on a square board where pieces can fall.
• Ataxx: A semi-modern game of capture and conversion
  • Hexxagon : Ataxx on a hexagonal board
• Backgammon: A classic game of strategy, involving partial chance.
• Blackout : A popular card game where you must evaluate precisely how many tricks you will win.
  • Wizard : A variant with 8 new cards, Jesters and Wizards.
• Breakthrough: An amazingly simple concept of a boardgame in which 2 players try to get past each other.
• Cathedral : A polyomino placing game.
• Checkers: One of the oldest games on the planet.
• Chess: Possibly the most famous strategy game of all time.
  • Amoeba : Played on a 9x8 board with squares that slide around.
  • Avalanche Chess: Ordinary chess, except after each move you must push a pawn one square forward if you can.
  • Big Outer Chess : A large chess variant where pieces in the middle of the board become less powerful.
  • Capablanca: A chess variant taking place on a 10x8 board with the introduction of the Chancellor (combines Rook and Knight) and Archbishop (combines Bishop and Knight)
• CooperYoung: A modern game of bluff.
• Go: A classic game of strategy that computers are impotent against.
  • Alak: 1-Dimensional Go
• Philosopher's Football
• Quoridor: A modern maze game.
• Shogi: Japanese Chess
  • Tori Shogi: A small variant of Shogi with birds instead of pieces.
  • Yari Shogi
• Trax: Two players try to make long paths or loops.
  • 8x8Trax : Two players do so on an 8x8 board.
• Tumbling Down
• Twixt: Connection game with struts.
• Unlur : Connection game with different aims for the two players.
• Wari: Classic African game of marble capture.
• Xiangqi: Chinese chess.
• Y: Connection game on a triangular board.
• Zèrtz: The third game in the Gipf sequence. A sort of hexagonal variant of checkers in which both players use the same pieces.
  • Zertz+11: Zèrtz on a bigger board.

External Link:

• Richard's Play By Email Server